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“Molly, Molly, Molly, did you finish the castle yet?”  Lily shouted, as she, Schrodinger, Jack and Zoey piled into the kitchen.  Then she caught sight of her aunt and put the brakes on, causing a slight pile-up near the doorway.   Sitting on the island was the castle, still rising high from its board.  The …

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It was Tuesday, but Molly had decided that her kitchen at the bookstore was better suited to finish baking the gingerbread pieces than her home kitchen.   “Besides,” she explained to Aunt Margie, who had stopped in to get a cup of tea. “I have everything here already. Why should I schlep it all the …

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“Just snow flurries,” Drew assured Molly as he stopped into the bookstore on his way to the Station. “Nothing like the storm last week.”   “Good,” Molly said, holding up an empty tea mug in suggestion. “Or don’t you have time?”   “I always have time for you,” he told her, shedding his coat and …

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“You guys, you guys, guess what happened last night!!!”   Zoey tore into the kitchen, her eyes shining and her long braids (sporting red bows with snowflakes on them, Molly noted) streaming out from under her hat. Schrodinger and Molly had been enjoying a late morning cup of tea, but they both turned to her …

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Sorry, guys.  Had a catastrophic laptop failure earlier, and it took a while for my old laptop to update.  But here’s today’s Advent story! *** She isn’t coming at all? Schrodinger said, dismay written large in both his voice and his body language.   Jack shook his head. Corinne said Lily needed a quiet day, …

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Molly heard them as soon as the front door opened. Both Zoey and Lily had spent the prior afternoon outside building snowmen and snow dragons with Ember and Old Man Winter, and by the coughing, it sounded like they’d both brought home colds. She sighed and shook her head.   “Don’t come in the kitchen,” …

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“Oh no!”   Zoey’s anguished wail echoed from the living room where all the kids had fallen asleep. Molly, sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea, watched the snow continue to fall outside and smiled. They’d be coming in soon enough, she knew, as Lily’s voice joined Zoey’s.   And sure enough, …

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It looks like it did last year, Jack remarked, laying his head down on his paws. He and Schrodinger were lying on Schrodinger’s bed, watching the snow fall outside of the big windows at the front of CrossWinds Books. When Old Man Winter came around.   It snows every winter, Schrodinger replied sleepily. It was …

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“Do we have everything?” Drew asked, looking over the back of his Range Rover. Molly frowned, looking from the back of the car to the list in her hand, and back again.   “I think so,” she said finally, after counting the boxes three times. “Unless Sue forgot to put it on the list.”   …

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“Molly! You in here?”   Molly heard Lai’s voice cut through the instrumental Christmas carols from the radio and chuckled. Right on time, as always.   “Where else would I be?” she called back, mixing up another batch of scones. “Come on in!”   She knew, before they trooped in, that Lai wasn’t alone. They …

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